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This beautiful animation of London's history was made entirely from paper

The video above must have taken a hell of a long time to put together.

The National Geographic's animation of London's colourful history spans a whopping 40,000 years. It starts in the era of woolly mammoths, sails through the Viking invasion and the time of Shakespeare, then races past the Black Death and the Industrial Revolution before arriving in the present day. Oh, and the whole thing is made entirely from paper.

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